Displaying Japanese text in the Immediate Window of Excel VBA

Question

In Excel 2010, I have a worksheet containing Japanese text. There is no problem editing, or displaying this. When I grab the value of a cell containing Japanese and use Debug.Pr

Answer 1

The VBA development environment depends on the Windows "system locale" setting to tell it what character set to use. I got it to work using

• Windows Vista (English)
• Excel 2010 (English)

by going into the "Regional and Language Options" section of the Windows Control Panel and setting the system locale to "Japanese (Japan)"

After my system rebooted I could see Japanese characters in the VBA Immediate Window: